The Stansted 15 were acting to uphold justice, not to contravene it. The state must not be able to use sweeping powers granted for the so-called fight against international terrorism to aid its agenda elsewhere.

To be stateless is to be a citizen of nowhere; to have no country which is bound to accept their return; it is to be denied the basic comfort of somewhere to call home. The Home Office can never claim to have a reasonable prospect of removal in relation to a stateless person.